Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

secrets management

215 live US technical postings name secrets management in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 215 postings naming secrets management that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer46%
  2. 2Security Engineer27.9%
  3. 3Software Engineer22.8%
  4. 4AI Engineer2.3%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where secrets management is named
n = 98
10th
$150k
25th
$175k
Median
$206k
75th
$255k
90th
$294k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote24.2%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA21.4%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA7.9%
  4. 4New York, NY7.4%
  5. 5Boston, MA5.1%
  6. 6Seattle, WA2.8%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.3%
  8. 8Chicago, IL2.3%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.